RE: 820 to 520 Upgrade

http://www.imation.com/support/compatibility/entrycompchart.html

Scroll down to SLR.

Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Administrator
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5
Kingland Systems Corporation
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:06 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: 820 to 520 Upgrade

I think the system handbook has a chart listing the tape compatabilities
across drives.  Or for each tape drive type, the tape formats it can
read & write.

Usually, as long as the physical tape/cartridge size doesn't change, a
tape drive can read & write 1 tape generation back and mostly read tapes
that are 2+ generations back.  Not always, though, as sometimes the
drive read/write heads changes to a sufficient degree that they cannot
read older tapes.

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+john.jones=am.jll.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+john.jones=am.jll.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:49 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: 820 to 520 Upgrade

So I just have to make sure the tape drive I get is compatible with both
the model 270 and the model 520.  The redpaper says that what comes with
the 520 is a 3GB QIC tape drive.  That sounds awfully small.   Maybe
they meant the 13GB drive?

In any case, here's a REAL newbie question.  If both machines have QIC
tape drives but one machine has a drive with greater capacity than the
other, can the greater capacity drive write to tapes that the smaller
drive can use, and vice versa?

Joe


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